Court of Mikhail Anshakov

On Wednesday, April 10, at 14:00 in the 417th section of the Presnensky District Court of Moscow, the trial of the chairman of the Consumer Protection Protection Society Mikhail Anshakov will continue. He is accused of slandering the fund of the Cathedral of Christ the Savior. Part 2 of Article 128.1 of the Criminal Code, Anshakov faces a fine of up to 1 million rubles or mandatory work for up to 240 hours. The victim in the case is the Executive Director of the Fund Vasily Poddevalin.

According to the indictment, approved by the first deputy prosecutor of Moscow, Alexander Kozlov, Anshakov’s statements were recognized in an interview entitled “The product is consecrated. The exchange and return is not subject to return”, which was published in Novy Gazeta in September 2012. In this interview, the head of the OZPP said that the XXS actually operates a business center where the offices of 15 commercial firms are located, a car wash, a car service, a tire fitting, a parking lot for 305 cars, a laundry room, a dining room and numerous pavilions selling jewelry, souvenirs and other shirpolarb.

The first meeting in the case took place on March 29 in the absence of Poddornalin. Anshakov refused to find himself guilty. After that, three witnesses of the prosecution acted. The judge asked to notify Poddevalin that if he did not appear at the second meeting, he could be delivered to the court in accordance with the Code of Criminal Procedure.

Earlier, Kozlov tried to attract Anshakov for slander under an administrative article, but on October 19, 2012, the judge of the 350th section of the Savelovsky District Court acquitted him for the lack of the composition of the offense. After the article on slander returned from the Code of Administrative Offenses to the Criminal Code, a criminal case was opened against a public leader. This is the first thing about slander, open after the return of the article in the Criminal Code.

In December, Anshakov was brutally beaten .